The void

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"Not" a theist.
and also "not" an atheist.

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“I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one,” he wrote to a man who corresponded with him on the subject twice in the 1940s. “You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist. … I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.”

So agnostic at best not a theist or deist.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-n...25-n373991

Einstein’s religion, if you have to put a label to it, is a sort of nebulous Deism: Maybe God played in role in creating the universe — because nature inspires such awe and the universe seems perfectly guided by mathematics — but that God has no direct affect on our lives today.

If pollsters spoke with him today, they’d categorize him as a “None,” someone who wastes no energy on religion but also has no desire to become an atheist advocate.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...od-or-not/